Book: "Driving Home" by Jerome Bettis2021 viewsBen poses with Jerome Bettis and Hines Ward prior to the AFC Championship game against Denver. The Steelers would go onto win the game to earn a spot in Super Bowl XL.

GQ Magazine, September 20073418 views"Young Guns", All Hail The Young QB's:

Ben Roethlisberger, Age 25.
Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

Team: Pittsburgh Steelers

At least this off-season, Ben Roethlisberger didn’t…well, you know. Last summer the Super Bowl XL champion was lucky to survive a scary motorcycle accident in downtown Pittsburgh and then followed it up with his most uneven NFL season to date, suddenly looking mortal as the Steelers failed to make the playoffs. Now the guy who won twenty-seven of the first thirty-one games he played is toiling for a new coach (Mike Tomlin, who replaces the square-jawed Bill Cowher), under a new system that’ll entrust him with the offense more than Cowher ever did, and he’s in peak physical condition. Then there’s that brand-new chip on his shoulder, which we have to admit to liking. “I like being the underdog,” Roethlisberger says. “I like having everyone against me.” It’s Big Ben’s challenge to the nonbelievers. We wouldn’t dare take him up on it.

GQ Magazine, September 20073411 views"young Guns", All Hail The Young QB's:

Screen capture from the "making of" video.

"It was fun to be out there, to do the shoot. The James Dean look, hence, the leather jacket. I don't know if I'll get hit on too bad for this."